A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies : ... to which is added, a practical treatise on scorbutic dysentery, with some facts and observations relative to scurvy / by R.W. Bampfield.

  • Bampfield, R. W. (Robert William), -1827.
Date:
1819
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Credit: A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies : ... to which is added, a practical treatise on scorbutic dysentery, with some facts and observations relative to scurvy / by R.W. Bampfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    q. s, ut fiat pilula bis die sumenda. 25th. He has had seven purging stools last night, without any admixture of mucus; he can see a little at night—Rep. pulv. ipecac, co. 9ss aq. menth. pip. §iss, ft haustus mane sum. and as he had only two stools in the course of the day, rep. haustus vespere. 26th. He had several mucous stools last night, with tormina and tenesmus—Rep. ])ilula mere, ut supra, bis die. In the evening 1 ordered him four ounces ol lime-juice, as the prevalence of scurvy, the peculiar dusky hue of the face, and his general languor, induced me to sus- pect a scorbutic taint. 27ih. I’he mercury has induced ptyalism ; he has had thr^e natural stools last night, and is tolerably easy; the patient’s sight at night is imperfect, but he can sometimes see —Rep. emplastra lyttaj, et rep. p. ipecac, co. Bss bis die, cum sue. limonis |iv. 28th. Is much the same; I consider the early induction ol ptyalism as an obscure mark of scurvy—Rep. med*» 29th. He has had two stools last night mixed with mucus and blood ; the bowels are easy, the gums to-day appear spongy and scorbutic ; he is thin and weak, and looks spiritless—R. Decocti cinchonae §ij. sextis horis sumendas; cap. sue. limon. |iv. bis die, et pil: ex opii g''j. hora somni, si occasio fuerit. 30th. Is much the same, but he had not any occasion to take the opiate, as the fecal evacuations were neither too copious nor very frequent—Rep. med. 31st. The bowels are regular, and the stools are mixed with very little mucus and blood; the night-blindness is removed; the ptyalism has ceased—Rep. med*. and, as the bowels were purged a little to-day, capiat opii g'j. hora somni. Sept. 1st. He recovers his general health—Rep. med. 2d. The bowels are quite regular, his sight good, and he recovers his general health. The medicines were continued a few days, until all scorbutic symptoms w^re quite removed. This cas and the last prove, that no “ unreasonable dread” need be entertained ol using mercury in obscure cases of scorbutic dy'- sentery, yet the practice, in which it is excluded, is to be pre- ferred, as soon as the real nature of the disease is evident.